A technology developed by researchers at Temple University School of Medicine has been selected among the top 100 science stories for 2014 by 'Discover' magazine. The technique has the potential to eliminate HIV from the genome of individual cells.

An estimated 28,000 lemurs have been illegally kept as pets in Madagascar over the past three years, possibly threatening conservation efforts and hastening the extinction of some lemur species, according to a study by Temple University researchers.

Blocking a key receptor in brain cells that is used by oxygen free radicals could play a major role in neutralizing the biological consequences of Alzheimer’s disease, according to researchers at Temple University's School of Medicine.

The expansion of Temple's research enterprise, highlighted by the recent dedication of the Science Education and Research Center, has led to a dramatic increase in commercialization revenues from university-developed technologies.

Grace Ma, professor of public health and director of Temple's Center for Asian Health, has been awarded a $1.8 million grant to study the monitoring and treatment of hepatitis B among Asian Americans, a group at particularly high risk for the disease.

Temple University and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have received a joint $4.3 million, four-year grant to investigate new methods for eradicating HIV that lurks in brain cells despite conventional antiviral treatments.